image: Artistic reconstruction of a cross section of Ernietta. Note the laminations of sediment within the cavity, and the particles within the surrounding water that settles into the cavity. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 19th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by B.M. Gibson at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, and colleagues was titled, "Gregarious suspension feeding in a modular Ediacaran organism." view more
Credit: Dave Mazierski